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    perf symbols: Rename kthreads to kmaps, using another abstraction for it · 9958e1f0
    Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
    Using a struct thread instance just to hold the kernel space maps
    (vmlinux + modules) is overkill and confuses people trying to
    understand the perf symbols abstractions.
    
    The kernel maps are really present in all threads, i.e. the kernel
    is a library, not a separate thread.
    
    So introduce the 'map_groups' abstraction and use it for the kernel
    maps, now in the kmaps global variable.
    
    It, in turn, will move, together with the threads list to the
    perf_file abstraction, so that we can support multiple perf_file
    instances, needed by perf diff.
    
    Brainstormed-with: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
    Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
    Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    LKML-Reference: <1260550239-5372-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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